B. D. Pande

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Bhairab Dutt Pande
Governor of West Bengal
In office
12 September 1981 – 10 October 1983
Chief MinisterJyoti Basu
Preceded byTribhuvan Narain Singh
Succeeded byAnant Sharma
Cabinet Secretary of India
In office
2 November 1972 – 31 March 1977
Prime MinisterIndira Gandhi
Preceded byT. Swaminathan
Succeeded byN. K. Mukarji
Personal details
Born17 March 1917
Almora district, Uttarakhand, British India
Died4 April 2009(2009-04-04) (aged 92)[citation needed]
Almora[citation needed]
SpouseVimla
Children3
OccupationIndian Civil Service
Known forCivil Service
AwardsPadma Vibhushan, Padma Shri

Bhairab Dutt Pande (17 March 1917 – 2009)

Administrator of Chandigarh for a brief period.[2][3][4]

Born in Almora, in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, Pande served as a Cabinet Secretary to the Union Government from 2 November 1972 to 31 March 1977.[5] When President's rule was imposed on Punjab, he served as the governor of the state.[6]

Pande was married to Vimla Pande.[7] They had three children: Arvind Pande, IAS,[8] environmentalist Lalit Pande, and Ratna Pande. His brother-in-laws were Vinod Chandra Pande, a former governor and Union Cabinet Secretary and Govind Chandra Pande a Padmi Shri and noted scholar and historian.[7]

He was one of the last living members of the

Imperial Civil Service, having entered in the 1939 batch.[9]

The Government of India awarded Pande the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 1972, for his contributions to Indian society[10] and the Padma Vibhushan in 2000.

References

  1. ^ Singh, Jupinderjit (23 September 2022). "False narrative built before Operation Bluestar: Ex-Punjab governor BD Pande". The Tribune. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  2. ^ Administrators Chandigarh Official website.
  3. ^ Governors 1947-
  4. ^ "Pande takes top post for two years". Telegraph. 11 September 2002. Archived from the original on 18 November 2002. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
  5. ^ "Cabinet Secretariat - Cabinet Secretaries Since 1950". Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original on 10 March 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  6. ^ "Daunting task before Punjab Governor B.D. Pande and his advisors". India Today. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  7. ^ a b "Grace without measure". Indian Express. 1 November 2006. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
  8. ^ "Stocks". Bloomberg News.
  9. ^ The London Gazette, 17 October 1939
  10. ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.